To bumble or not to bumble: Does Asia need its own dating apps?
Bumble—the Austin, Texas-based startup founded by CEO and ex-Tinder entrepreneur Whitney Wolfe Herd, best known for having broken new ground…
Australia’s international travel ban and arrivals cap investigated by audit office | Australia news
Australia’s international border policies including the outbound travel ban and inbound arrival caps will be examined by the Australian National…
Clubhouse: Hype-fuelled gimmick or the future of events and podcasting?
Facebook wasn’t the first social network. Anyone remember Bebo? Google wasn’t the first search engine. How about Ask Jeeves, as…
Antarctic ice shelf sponge discovery reveals new life forms
Researchers were drilling through 900m of ice in the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, situated on the southeastern Weddell Sea, when they…
Four new cases of COVID-19, two locally acquired; uncertainties loom over lockdown end date
Victorians can expect “favourable announcements” on lockdown restrictions tomorrow, providing the state’s coronavirus numbers remain low and no mystery cases…
AstraZeneca vaccine approved for use in Australia
Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has granted provisional approval to AstraZeneca for its COVID-19 vaccine, making it the second vaccine…
Scott Morrison’s job description for 2021: keeping the virus out and ensuring an effective vaccine rollout | Peter Lewis | Australia news
The politics of 2021 was meant to be all about what would happen after the “worst year ever” and how…
How this Tokyo-based IoT startup seeks to revolutionise healthcare
According to government data, in 2010, Japan was declared as one of the worst-affected nations by the worldwide diabetes epidemic…
Coronavirus live news: UK to consider giving excess vaccine to other countries; WHO approves Oxford jab
Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid jab can now be rolled out globally and participate in Covax; South Africa opens borders UK to consider…
UK opens quarantine hotels, pushes on with vaccine drive
Britain‘s newly established quarantine hotels have received their first guests. It comes as the government tries to prevent new coronavirus…